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portada Aspiring to Home
Type
Physical Book
Year
2012
Language
English
Pages
328
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
0804777993
ISBN13
9780804777995
Edition No.
1

Aspiring to Home

Bakirathi Mani (Author) · Stanford University Press · Hardcover

Aspiring to Home - Bakirathi Mani

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Synopsis "Aspiring to Home"

What does it mean to belong? How are twenty-first-century diasporic subjects fashioning identities and communities that bind them together? Aspiring to Home examines these questions with a focus on immigrants from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Advancing a theory of locality to explain the means through which immigrants of varying regional, religious, and linguistic backgrounds experience what it means to belong, Bakirathi Mani shows how ethnicity is produced through the relationship between domestic racial formations and global movements of class and capital. Aspiring to Home focuses on popular cultural works created by first- and second-generation South Asians from 1999–2009, including those by author Jhumpa Lahiri and filmmaker Mira Nair, as well as public events such as the Miss India U.S.A. pageant and the Broadway musical Bombay Dreams. Analyzing these diverse productions through an interdisciplinary framework, Mani weaves literary readings with ethnography to unravel the constraints of form and genre that shape how we read diasporic popular culture.

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